Nigeria is safe under Buhari, says minister of information and culture.
The minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, has said Nigerians are in safe hands with President Muhammadu Buhari
at the helm of affairs.
The minister gave the assurance on Saturday aat a meeting
with the staff of the Nigerian embassy in Madrid, Spain, and some Nigerian
living in the European country.
A statement issued by the special assistant to the minister, Mr. Segun Adeyemi, which was made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday quoted Mohammed as saying, “contrary to what you may be reading on the internet, the Buhari administration is putting Nigeria on a solid footing after the years that were eaten by the locust.”
He claimed distracters spent millions of naira t distort the
true situation in Nigeria and to make the administration look bad.
“it is said that if you don’t know where you are coming
from, you won’t know where you are going,” he said , listing the fall in the
price of crude oil, the low foreign reserves at $24bn, the Federal
Government borrowing to pay workers, and
states inability to pay salaries as some of the challenges, punch reports.
Updateville.blogspot.com gathers that Minister of
information Alhaji Lai Mohammed also claimed that when the administration
came into office, unpaid pensions had run into billions of Naira in many states,
contractors had abandoned sites across the country because they were owed,
infrastructure was in poor state, power generation 2,690 megawatts, corruption
was the order of the day, Boko Haram taking over 27 Local Government in Borno.
He further said that the administration of President Muhammadu
Buhari , had reversed the trend and the results are showing .
With the full implementation of TSA (treasury single
account) the nation is being saved N24.7bn monthly and the elimination of ghost
worker has saved the nation N120bn.
“with improved macro-economic conditions, capital inflow is
on the upswing, reaching $1.8bnin the second quarter of 2017, Nigeria stock
market is one of the best performing in the world, delivering returns in excess
of 40 percent, Nigeria jumped 24 places on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing
Business ranking, and earned a place on the list of Top 10 Reformers in the
world.
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